About me

1969 – 1974
Medical School – Goettingen University, Germany
1982
Board Certification in Neurosurgery ( German Facharzt )
1983
Promotion with the dissertation on “Hydrocephalus, surgical treatment and complications”
1991
Certification in Hannover, Germany
1995
Habilitation in Luebeck, Germany with the research work on “Surgical topographic anatomy and its relevance for micro-surgery of vascular lesions and tumors in and around the cavernous sinus”
1995
Venia Legendi on the Medical Faculty -University of Lübeck
2003
Full Professor

1978 – 1982
Internship Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital, Hannover (Director: Prof. Dr. med. M. Samii)
1982 – 1994
Associate Position Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital, Hannover
1994 – 2002
Head Associate Position Neurosurgical Clinic, University Clinic, Lübeck (Director: Prof. Dr. med. H. Arnold)
2002 – 2010
Chief of Neurosurgery, Clemens Hospital Münster, Germany
2011 – 2012
Chief of the Spinal Center, Elisabethen Hospital, Ibbenbüren, Germany
2012
Neurosurgical Expertise Center, Andreas Clinic Cham/Zug, Switzerland
2012
Association with the St. Anna Clinic in Luzern, Switzerland
2013
Founder and Director of the German Skull Base Center Klinikum Bielefeld, Germany
2014
Affiliated doctor at the St. Anna Clinic in Luzern, Switzerland

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• Management of vestibular schwannoma, Non-Cystic vs Cystic, functional outcome Februar 12, 2015
• Management of vestibular schwannoma between 1-3cm, importance of tumor size in clinical and functional outcome in 442 patients Dezember 4, 2014
• Vestibular schwannoma between 1 and 3 cm: Importance of thetumor size in surgical and functional outcome Dezember 4, 2014

• German Neurosurgical Society (DGNC)
• European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN)
• European Skull Base Society (ESBS)
• German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
• VAN | VAN: Association auditory neurinoma e.V. The self-help group VAN “association auditory neurinoma eV “informs, advises and assists all those – whether as a patient or family member – from one auditory neuroma (AN) are affected.
• IGA | IGA: Interessengemeinschaft Akustikusneurinom IGAN The interest group acoustic neuroma is IGAN a free, non-organized self-help group in the form of a ‘loose association’, ie without legal status, no statute, no formal membership application and without a membership fee 2. The combined transnational people and institutions, the common problem have a – the brain tumor, acoustic neuroma – and the slogan ‘help themselves’ voluntarily and do something together to resolve this problem want to do after.

both of these VAN and IGA are acoustic neurinoma patient orientated groups